August 26, 2009

Why I won't mourn

So Massachusetts Senator Edward M Kennedy passed-away last night at the age of 77, losing his long battle with brain cancer, and I gather that the polite thing to feel is grief and the polite thing to do is to mourn.

But I don't, and I won't.

Look, I'm not happy he's dead - so don't get that idea. I'm sorry for his family's loss, and I hope they will find Peace with it. I'm sorry when anyone dies; but as a Catholic (like, ahem, the late Senator) I know that death is an inevitable part of life and that it is a Beginning, rather than an End.

But the guy hasn't even been dead 24-hours yet and the cries of "SAINT TEDDY!!!!" are already starting to make me sick.Let's make one thing clear - Ted Kennedy was not a "public servant".
He was a politician, particularly adept at using his family name and
connections to acquire a seat in the United States Senate and to stay
there for 47-years. And in that 47-year career - a career that spans
4-years longer than I've been alive - I think one would be hard-pressed
to find any single person who has accomplished more in the aim of
destroying this country, and everything it was supposed to stand for,
than he.

Nor is said destruction likely to end entirely with his death, of
course. How soon will it be, do you think, that the rallying cry for
the passage of Obamacare will be "Do it for TEDDY!!!" A week? Two
weeks?

And ironically enough, Obamacare would - in a fair world - almost
certainly deny said Senator the very expensive, cutting-edge care that
he received over the last couple of months. He would instead, almost
certainly were his last name not "Kennedy", have been offered "Death
with Dignity" counseling rather than treatment.

I'll leave it to the left to square that circle.

His public stands on all social issues, as well as his own well
publicized personal foibles, make a mockery of the Faith to which we
are supposedly both members. Make no doubt, I am a firm believer in
the power of Forgiveness - I count on it, in fact. But the "personal
choice" Abortion cop-out so often used by the late Senator and so many
other so-called Catholics rings so utterly hollow in people who are
more than happy to make their personal views on, say, wages and income
distribution the law of the land. Seriously.

I could go on and on, but it's of no use because that now ends with
Kennedy's passing, of course - though I have no doubt that
Massachusetts will certainly replace him in the World's Most
Deliberately Arrogant Body with a younger fellow-traveler (as in, a
barking left-fascist moonbat).